This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Science > Earth > Environmental Sciences – Quiz 134 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Environmental Sciences Quiz 134 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which of the following must be done for the results of an experiment to be considered valid? A) The experiment must be repeated numerous times and the same results are obtained. B) The results must be published in a national journal. C) The results must be shown in a graph. D) The results must be only quantitative. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The experiment must be repeated numerous times and the same results are obtained. 2. As populations grow, the tragedy of the commons will become more of a problem? A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 3. Minerals that contain valuable substances A) Ore minerals. B) Smelting. C) Reclamation. D) Aggregates. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ore minerals. 4. "A ball falling from the sky" is an example of a observation A) Quantitative. B) Qualitative. C) Neither quantitative nor qualitative. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Qualitative. 5. It is a group of organisms having a unique set of characteristics that set it apart from other groups. A) Population. B) Species. C) Ecology. D) Organism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Species. 6. In order for water vapor to form, what must occur? A) Precipitation. B) Condensation. C) Evaporation. D) Transpiration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Condensation. 7. What should a scientist do if they believe another scientists' results are incorrect? A) Replicate the other scientists experiment to see if he gets the same results. B) Change variables in the other scientists experiment to tru to change the results. C) Research what should likely happen in the experiment from an online resource. D) Do a different experiment and show that the results are different. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Replicate the other scientists experiment to see if he gets the same results. 8. How does carbon monoxide affect human health? A) It interferes with the body's ability to deliver oxygen to cells. B) It irritates the throat and air passages. C) It helps the respiratory system function more efficiently. D) It depletes ozone, causing greater exposure to the sun's rays. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It interferes with the body's ability to deliver oxygen to cells. 9. Proteins are essential to the cell membrane because A) They attach the cell membrane to the cell wall. B) Prevent th cell membrane from breaking apart in water. C) Allow certain things to pass throught the membrane. D) Prevent gases, such as oxygen, from leaving the cell. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Allow certain things to pass throught the membrane. 10. What is the difference between primary and secondary succcession? A) Primary succession already has soil. B) Lichen and moss come in for secondary succession. C) Secondary succession already has soil. D) Climax community is achieved quickly in primary succession. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Secondary succession already has soil. 11. Disease agents can be A) Physical. B) Chemical. C) Biological. D) All of the Above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the Above. 12. The thin layer of life around the Earth A) Atmosphere. B) Biosphere. C) Stratosphere. D) Ozone layer. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Biosphere. 13. A vitamin that supports health and growth A) Vitamin A. B) Vitamin D. C) Vitamin C. D) Vitamin B. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Vitamin C. 14. In paragraph 1, the word "room" is closest in meaning to ..... A) Chamber. B) Area. C) Flat. D) Studio. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Area. 15. Rohan's house was robbed which emergency service should he call up? A) Ambulance. B) Fire brigade. C) Police. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Police. 16. Tick the wild animal. A) Sheep. B) Goat. C) Giraffe. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Giraffe. 17. Renewable energy is energy from sources that A) Humans can manufacture. B) Are constantly being formed. C) Will take years to deplete. D) Were once living organisms. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Are constantly being formed. 18. What is most water used for? A) Huma consumption. B) Water parks and roller coasters. C) Recreational purposes. D) Agriculture and industry. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Agriculture and industry. 19. Most of today's environmental problems can be traced back to what time period? A) Hunter-gatherer period. B) The 1980s. C) Industrial revolution. D) Agricultural revolution. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Industrial revolution. 20. Undesirable change in air, water or soil A) Sustainability. B) Pollution. C) Resource depletion. D) Tragedy of the Commons. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pollution. 21. The amount of energy the body gets from food is measured in. A) Metabolism. B) Diet. C) Calories. D) Protein. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Calories. 22. A wolf population is introduced into an ecosystem, causing the deer population to decrease. The wolf population decreases as the deer population decreases, allowing the deer to begin to increase again. This is an example of what type of feedback? A) Neutral. B) Ecosystem. C) Negative. D) Positive. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Negative. 23. A plant or animal in an ecosystem is a- A) Organism. B) Community. C) Population. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Organism. 24. ..... is when one thing is responsible for another thing happening. A) Causation. B) Correlation. C) Mechanism. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Causation. 25. All of the following would be considered ways to conserve EXCEPT: A) Starting a recycling program at school. B) Leaving the lights on so energy is not wasted by turning them off and on. C) Reducing the number of laundry loads done at home. D) Turning off the water while brushing your teeth. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Leaving the lights on so energy is not wasted by turning them off and on. 26. One tool that helps us create cost-effective ways to protect our health and the environment. A) Risk assessment. B) Cost-benefit analysis. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Risk assessment. 27. All of the production by photosynthetic organisms in a defined area over a specified time period is known as A) Photosynthesis-Respiration. B) Photosynthesis + Respiration. C) Gross Productivity. D) Net Productivity. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Gross Productivity. 28. A negative feedback loop is: A) Seen in the example o world population growth. B) Seen in the example of increased greenhouse gases leading to global warming. C) When feedback into the system increases the rate of progress. D) When a system responds to a change by returning it to its original state. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) When a system responds to a change by returning it to its original state. 29. How does absolute age differ from relative age? A) Only absolute dating indicates which rock is older than another. B) Only absolute dating finds the age in years. C) Only relative dating finds the age in years. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Only absolute dating finds the age in years. 30. Which of the following places the biological levels of organization in correct order from LARGEST to smallest? A) Organism, population, community, ecosystem, biome, biosphere. B) Biosphere, biome, ecosystem, community, population, organism. C) Organism, community, population, ecosystem, biome, biosphere. D) Biosphere, population, community, organism, biome, ecosystem. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Biosphere, biome, ecosystem, community, population, organism. 31. Where does most air pollution come from? A) Human activities. B) Wildfires. C) Volcanic eruptions. D) Allergens. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Human activities. 32. Ground level ozone (also known as tropospheric ozone) is ..... A) A significant source of air pollution and contributes to the formation of smog. B) Also found in the exosphere. C) Found only in rural areas. D) A significant source of air pollution and contributes to the increase in the hole in the ozone layer. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A significant source of air pollution and contributes to the formation of smog. 33. Eats both producers and consumer A) Herbivore. B) Carnivore. C) Omnivore. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Omnivore. 34. Why does our food have to travel such great distances to get to us? A) The climate. B) Lack of resources. C) Laziness. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The climate. 35. All economies depend on the environment. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 36. Which species is a type of nonnative species that causes problems for the environment? A) Invasive species. B) Endemic species. C) Keystone species. D) Nonnative species. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Invasive species. 37. What is another way to lower the nitrate level in your tank? A) Remove plants. B) Add plants. C) Add snails. D) Add fish. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Add plants. 38. Lower trophic levels generally contain ..... energy, biomass, and individuals. A) Less. B) More. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) More. 39. A threat to ocean organisms A) Corals. B) Dams. C) Zooplankton. D) Over Fishing. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Over Fishing. 40. Water shortages can be created by ..... A) Weather related issues like drought. B) Human consumption. C) Human withdrawal. D) All of the above reasons. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above reasons. 41. Most developing countries are located on the continent of ..... A) Africa. B) Asia. C) South America. D) North America. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Africa. 42. What are the four types of ecosystem services? A) Provisioning, Regulating, Cultural, Supporting. B) Supplying, Controlling, Social, Sustaining. C) Producing, Managing, Traditional, Assisting. D) Providing, Regulating, Cultural, Supporting. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Provisioning, Regulating, Cultural, Supporting. 43. Which watershed is the largest in the United States? A) Mississippi River Watershed. B) Potomac River Watershed. C) Shenandoah River Watershed. D) James River Watershed. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mississippi River Watershed. 44. Climate change will cause oceans to become more A) Acidic. B) Polluted. C) Basic. D) Alkaline. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Acidic. 45. Agriculture is the raising of crops and livestock for food or for other products that are useful to humans A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 46. What is a characteristic of non-renewable resources? A) Infinite supply. B) Easily replenished. C) Often environmentally friendly. D) Finite supply. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Finite supply. 47. Infectious diseases are caused by what? A) Food allergies. B) Weather conditions. C) Pathogens. D) Genetics. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pathogens. 48. This agency manages all national parks, many monuments, and other conservation and historic properties. A) U.S. Department of Agriculture. B) Bureau of Land Management. C) National Park Service. D) US Department of the Interior. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) National Park Service. 49. Gases such as carbon dioxide and methane protect the Earth from the cold of space helping to keep the Earth warm enough for life. The amount of these gasses in the atmosphere can be impacted by human behavior. A) Carbon. B) Hydrocarbons. C) Greenhouse gases. D) Atmospheric gasses. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Greenhouse gases. 50. Scientific agency that focus on the conditions of oceans, waterways, and the atmosphere. A) DOE. B) United States Geological Survey (USGS). C) The Environmental Protection Agency. D) National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. 51. An example of a population is A) All trees in a forest. B) All maple trees in a forest. C) All plants in a forest. D) All animals in a forest. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) All maple trees in a forest. 52. Fleas and ticks feeding off blood of mammals are examples of ..... A) Herbivory. B) Mutualism. C) Parasites. D) Commensalism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Parasites. 53. The process of fusion requires A) High heat and high pressure. B) Cool temperatures and no gravity. C) A snack. D) High heat and low pressure. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) High heat and high pressure. 54. Traveling from the North Pole to the equator you would expect to see which of the following orders of biomes (coldest/driest to hottest/wettest)? A) Rainforest, desert, taiga. B) Temperate forest, taiga, rainforest. C) Tundra, taiga, grassland, rainforest. D) Taiga, desert, tundra. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tundra, taiga, grassland, rainforest. 55. Which of these is false when it comes to industrialization. A) Less farmers are needed because the cities are growing. B) The climate is not affected. C) There are more jobs in the cities. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The climate is not affected. 56. According to the island biogeography theory, which of the following islands is likely to have higher species diversity? A) A larger island far from the mainland. B) A smaller island closer to the mainland. C) A larger island closer to the mainland. D) A smaller island far from the mainland. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A larger island closer to the mainland. 57. You suggest that the absence of water could prevent the growth of bread mold. This is- A) A conclusion. B) An experiment. C) A hypothesis. D) An analysis. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A hypothesis. 58. Why was the Antarctic Treaty created? A) To protect the land claims of various countries. B) The preserve the continent for scientific purposes only. C) To create an animal sanctuary. D) The build military bases for the United States. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The preserve the continent for scientific purposes only. 59. A body of permeable rock which can contain or transmit groundwater A) Denitrification. B) Aquifer. C) Nitrogen fixation. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Aquifer. 60. The level of organization in an ecosystem is A) Organism, community, population, ecosystem. B) Organism, population, community, ecosystem. C) Ecosystem, population, organism, community. D) Community, ecosystem, population, organism. 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